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Words alone cannot capture the depth of emotion in this testimony. A voice from the past, once fighting against extremism and fascism, now speaks with heartbreak as history threatens to repeat itself. Watch, listen, and reflect.

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

BREAKING: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals—made up of a Trump appointee, a Jimmy Carter appointee, and a George W. Bush appointee—rejected Trump's DOJ emergency request to lift a Seattle judge’s hold on his unconstitutional birthright citizenship executive order. So. Much. Winning

“Trump voter, disabled military veteran, ‘valuable member’ at FEMA fired as part of DOGE cuts” @wtopnews.bsky.social wtop.com/virginia/202...

I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

NEW: A federal judge issues a temporary injunction, saying the Trump regime cannot freeze foreign aid spending that predates Trump’s inauguration, nor fire nor suspend workers associated with those spending projects.

Yes he is.

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

“Trump’s tornado has changed the world in just a couple of weeks,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary told his allies from the stage of the summit whose slogan was, “Make Europe Great Again.” “Yesterday we were the heretics,” he said. “Now we are the mainstream.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...

True.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Elon Musk, whose companies have received over $15 billion from the U.S. government, will personally decide when there’s a conflict of interest involving him and DOGE. So reassuring

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NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD. *monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change. By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:

Richard fucking Blumenthal is doing a blanket hold? keep yelling, everyone, it’s working and call to tell them they’re doing the right thing when they do

🇬🇧 #ToriesGone216 #NeverToryAgain #NeverReform 🇺🇸 #SaveUSAID #ConstitutionalCrisis #25thAmendment #ImpeachTrump #DeportMusk #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #SaveUNRWA 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 #FundUNRWA #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🍉 Musk Shutters #USAID leaving the World's Poor in CRISIS | Anthony Davis youtu.be/Dib4DREe41U?...

This has all the hallmarks of a hostile takeover. Entire departments getting axed, with little thought given to critical functions, public safety or national security. Musk did it to Twitter. It glitched often. It was survivable. Glitches to the FAA, DOJ, FBI, CIA? Less survivable. Much less.

“He’s unqualified, and I daresay that everybody here knows it.” We need more principled senators like Warnock.

Just going to post this now before they change this all to say their mission is to defend Trump and Trump alone and that their values are vengeance, spite and favoritism.

Reuters: TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING US FROM UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, UNRWA

NOAA manages large ocean fisheries in US waters. Scientists there conduct surveys, sample fish, and run complex models to estimate the levels of sustainable catches. NOAA is recognized as a world leader in creating jobs, producing food, and avoiding overfishing. Kudos to NOAA fisheries!!!!

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Could it be that @kpmgus.bsky.social, as the internal control auditors of the Treasury, is the most important firewall to protect the country now ? @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @ericswalwell.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social Can someone interview them ?

Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You

#SHUTITDOWN #RESIST

“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

The State Department has fired about 60 contractors who work for its democracy, human rights, and labor bureau — a division whose programs have often been criticized by authoritarian leaders. The dismissals deal a severe blow to the bureau. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

If I scheduled a general strike to take place on the 5th of every month, would you be willing to participate?

I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS. I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.

Who else agrees with Jamie Raskin? 💙 🔥 ✅

Any other person would be arrested…

Also consider we already know the names of nearly a dozen DOGE employees who are inside our federal agencies, which means so do the spy agencies of every US enemy, who will try to compromise them if they don’t already have an insider. 

3 weeks ago, bought a dozen eggs for $2.79. Today: $6.09 Thanks, Donald Dumbass!

This is Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Last Friday he refused Justice Department order to identify & assist in firing all agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, He is said to have pushed back forcefully. Thank you Brian Driscoll!🇺🇸

www.usaidstopwork.com

Dear Leaders of the Free World, Fight him at every turn. Make his life miserable. Expose his ignorance and sociopathy. Oppose and condemn and marginalize him. The decent people of this nation are not with him. We stand with you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Trump installed Bessent to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and he moved quickly to halt all its work. Deconstructing the government from within.

Incredible to see a president tanking the world’s economy simply because he doesn’t understand it and is too dedicated to belligerent posturing to learn